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Twenty Objections to Christians 
Belonging to Labor Unions 


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G. W. Fink 


Published by the author 
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Copyright 1924 
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G. W. Fink 



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Foreword 


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“Twenty Objections to Christians Belong¬ 
ing to Labor Unions” was not written for pro¬ 
fit or pleasure nor because I had any ill feel¬ 
ing against members of organized labor but 
because of a deep conviction from the Lord 
that it was my duty to my brothers and sisters 
in Christ and to my nations welfare. Neither 
was it written because I was ill-treated or ex- 
peled from the union for this was not the case. 
I left of my own free-will, under deep con¬ 
viction from the Almighty God that I could no 
longer maintain a clear relationship with Jesus 
and his church and remain a member of organ¬ 
ized labor. And I left at a time when some 
very good financial inducements were being 
offered to me. But God had begun to open 
my eyes to some very important facts in con¬ 
nection with Labor Unions, which facts I have 
seen more clearly since I came out of them. 


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No one can see as clearly in the dark, although 
he may have some light, as when he is in the 
clear light. I have some staunch friends 
among the United Mine Workers of America, 
but if I were to ask for the privilege of work¬ 
ing at the same job with them they would bit¬ 
terly oppose me, unless I would rejoin their 
union. I know that the capitalists have op¬ 
pressed the laboring class in various ways and 
have made the conditions of labor very un¬ 
pleasant. If any men ought to have pleasant 
and profitable surroundings, it should be the 
men who by honest labor support not only 
their own families but actually contribute so 
largely to the production of the wealth of the 
nation. 

Honest and honorable labor is right by the 
law of God and man (Eph. 4: 28) and should 
be protected by law but unlawful labor should 
be punished by law and I believe that when 
labor forces itself on to employers by threats 
and strikes it is unlawful and unconstitutional. 
We know that it is natural for. unsanctified 
human nature to retaliate when unjustly op- 


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pressed. And it will actuate one to extreme 
measures if not checked by the civil law. I 
am aware that there are few rich men or rich 
concerns that have not contributed in some 
way to the oppression of labor. Dishonest 
methods have made capital a curse instead of 
a blessing as it should be. Capital can not 
long exist without labor and labor cannot exist 
without capital that compensates labor. If all 
capitalists were like Henry Ford, there would 
be very little ground for labor troubles. Mr. 
Ford has not only assisted his employes in 
buying their homes but has raised their wages 
without being asked to do so. He has also 
sought the moral good of all his employes by 
strictly prohibiting all drinking of intoxicating 
beverages while in his employ. He has also 
prohibited the use of the cigarette and pipe 
which, next to the liquor habit, are impairing 
and destroying the faculties of the minds and 
bodies of the majority of laborers. He has 
also spent large sums of money to disseminate 
throughout the nation his teaching against the 
use of the cigarette by putting his “Little 
White Slaver” in the hands of the youth of 


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our country and I say “God bless any rich man 
who so uses his money.” On the other hand 
the rich in every land have been guilty of op¬ 
pressing the poor by not paying wages suffic¬ 
ient to compare with the cost of living and we 
can not blame labor for seeking redress and an 
adjustment of their working conditions, but 
they have not sought it in a civil and scriptural 
way but rather by the uncivil and unscriptural 
way of strikes in which they have destroyed 
life and valuable properties. Instead of the 
ballot they have used “mob-law.” They have 
struck not only for higher wages and better 
conditions but they have refused to allow their 
employes the privilege to hire anyone in their 
stead and they have threatened and beat and 
killed any who have attempted to take their 
places and, when operators or employes have 
placed guards about non-union laborers, the 
union men have had pitched battles with them 
and some have been killed or wounded, by 
both guards and strikers. By this illegal and 
unscriptural manner, they have forced their 
recognition, even by governors and presidents 
who have taken a hand in trying to quell their 


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strikes and get a settlement between them and 
their employers. 

It is also true that labor organizations have 
become a great monopoly which is preventing 
capital from being used in a legal and honest 
way and also preventing unorganized labor 
from exercising its constitutional and legiti¬ 
mate right of working for such employers as 
have previously employed organized labor. 
The time has come that unorganized labor will 
have to ask and demand that their constitu¬ 
tional rights to labor for any man or company 
that wishes to hire them without molestation 
from organized labor be sustained and we be¬ 
lieve that, in a few years, capital, on account 
of the reduction of the price of manufactured 
commodities and the high price of labor by 
which such commodities are manufactured will 
have to have redress or quit the field of opera¬ 
tion. For these very reasons many coal mines 
have shut down and many more will shut down 
in the near future, especially the smaller ones 
that cannot compete with the larger operators. 
Much of the capital will then be withdrawn 


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from this country and invested where it will 
bring a paying profit, and that it will, of course, 
decrease the demand for labor for when six 
men are hunting a job, when there is only one 
job to every six men, the five must of necessity 
suffer a defeat and this is the case when capital 
ceases to be used. It is far better for labor 
to have six jobs seeking a man and for these 
reasons we have treated these subjects of capi¬ 
tal and foreign immigration in this little book. 

Also believing that God’s children cannot 
be “Unequally yoked together with unbe¬ 
lievers” in labor unions which are ungodly in¬ 
stitutions and believing that other unions such 
as church federations and the League of Na¬ 
tions are links in the union chain that is being 
forged and that, when this chain is completed, 
it will be the creation of a world confederacy 
that will be ruinous to church and state and 
that when such a combine is fully completed, 
non-organized labor, and non-federated 
churches will receive great persecution from 
the same; I give this warning of “Twenty Ob¬ 
jections to Christians Belonging to Labor 
Unions.” I ask that the readers of this little 


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book may not look at the imperfections but 
at the truth it teaches. To that end I have 
dedicated it to your spiritual and temporal 
good and the glory of God. 

Yours for the good of all mankind, 

G. W. Fink. 


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Twenty Objections to Christians 

Belonging to Labor Unions 

FIRST OBJECTION 

My first objection is that it is contrary to 
the plain word of God: “Be ye not unequally 
yoked together with unbelievers; for what fel¬ 
lowship hath righteousness with unrighteous¬ 
ness and what communion hath light with 
darkness or what part hath he that believeth 
with an infidel? ,, (2 Cor. 6: 14, 15). In all 
labor unions, as well as secret societies, there 
is a yoking with unbelievers, infidels, agnos¬ 
tics, drunkards, blasphemers, liars, adulterers, 
thieves, Sabbath desecraters. Many of them 
work on Sunday and many of them gamble 
and seek pleasure on that day. I know these 
things to be so, especially among the United 
Mine Workers of America. While there are 
a few moral and religious persons belonging 


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to these unions, their influence for good is de¬ 
moralized and their own minds spiritually 
darkened because of being yoked up with 
these wicked men. Is not this also a plain 
case of “fellowship with the unrighteous ?” 
And also it is “helping the ungodly,” by unit¬ 
ing with them in their ungody institutions, 
contrary to 2nd Chronicles 19: 1 & 2, “And 
Jehoshaphat the king of Judah returned to his 
house in peace to Jerusalem and Jehu the son 
of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and 
said to King Jehoshaphat, Shouldest thou help 
the ungodly, and love them that hate the Lord ? 
Therefore is wrath upon thee from before the 
Lord.” The king had joined in affinity with 
that wicked king Ahab and, after making the 
league, went up with his army to Ramoth- 
Gilead along with Ahab against the Syrians 
but was defeated. Now if it brought wrath 
from the Lord upon that righteous king Jehos¬ 
haphat, for helping the ungodly of his day, it 
will certainly bring wrath from God upon the 
Christian of today if he joins hands or makes 
affinity with the ungodly. God changes not 
but is the same yesterday, today and forever. 


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Knowing these things to be facts, how can you, 
my Christian brother, remain in a society of 
wicked men or even in a church that takes in 
and fellowships such persons that are members 
of unions, and secret orders and yet retain a 
good conscience before God? For the above 
Scripture says “His wrath is upon you.” If 
it be your case, I exhort you, my brother or 
sister, walk in the light that makes these truths 
manifest and separate yourselves immediately. 


SECOND OBJECTION 

My second objection is that, as in secret 
orders, Christ is not the door into these unions 
and the Christian religion is not the test of 
fellowship but any ungodly man, even though 
he be an infidel or atheist, who will take the 
oath or obligation that makes the members all 
brothers is voted in and given fellowship 
among the group. If Christ is not the door 
into these institutions and the Christian relig¬ 
ion the test of fellowship, then the devil must 
be the door and unrighteousness the test of 


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fellowship, for an institution must be a right 
one or a wrong one. If right, it must have 
“Christ our righteousness,” (Rom. 10: 4) as 
its head. If morally and spiritually wrong, it 
must have Satan who is the author of all 
wrong for its head. There is no possibility of 
a compromise between Christ and Satan or 
righteousness and unrighteousness so we see 
no possibility of a compromise between the 
true church of Jesus Christ and these ungodly 
institutions, whether for profit or pleasure, 
secret or none-secret. 


THIRD OBJECTION 

My third objection is that, in order to get 
into unions, one must take an oath or obli¬ 
gation the same as in secret orders and that 
in some unions a secret password is used. So 
labor unions may properly be called oath 
bound societies. So you, my Christian brother 
or sister, in the union are bound by oath or 
obligation to an ungodly institution and these 
obligations make it obligatory on you to obey 


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and support with your money and influence 
these same ungodly institutions, the majority 
of which are very wicked. “God judgeth the 
righteous and God is angry with the wicked 
every day” (Psalms 7: 11). According to 
this declaration, if you obligate yourself by 
oath or affirmation or otherwise to sustain the 
wicked by your money or a brotherhood affili¬ 
ation with them, you incur the same wrath of 
God that rests on the wicked with whom you 
are affiliated. God’s command through the 
wise man is, “Go not in the way of evil men” 
(Prov. 4: 14). It is impossible, my brother, 
to be affiliated in an organization with evil 
men, and not in some manner go in their evil 
ways and be partakers of some of their evil 
deeds. Paul says, “Be not partakers of other 
men’s sins” (1st Tim. 5: 22), and this you 
do when you belong to an institution made up 
principally of evil men. As the wise man says 
again, “In the transgression of evil men there 
is a snare” (Prov. 29: 6). By combining 
with them in any society you are putting your¬ 
self in a snare. And I know by experience 
that it is a snare from which it is almost im- 


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possible to extricate yourself, without much 
effort and prayer to God. The union job is a 
permanent one, for if your union works your 
job is secure and you will naturally feel a de¬ 
pendence on it and will be tempted to trust 
the union instead of God. The command of 
God’s word is “Trust ye in the Lord forever; 
for in the Lord Jehovah is everlasting 
strength.” Isaiah 26: 4. 


FOURTH OBJECTION 

My fourth objection is that it is wrong 
for Christians to join with wicked men and 
women to boycott non-union labor in which 
many Christian brothers and sisters may be en¬ 
gaged, for Jesus will say on the judgment day, 
“Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the 
least of these my brethren, ye have done it 
unto me” (Matt. 25). To discriminate against 
unorganized labor is contrary to that plain 
command of God’s word, “Thou shalt love thy 
neighbor as thyself.” If a man and his family 
were in a starving condition, on account of no 


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work and there was plenty of work in a coal 
mine or other union trades, that man would 
have to starve or join the union. And in join¬ 
ing he would have to pay from ten dollars to 
fifty dollars in order to have the privilege to 
work at those trades. I remember that after a 
fire at Perry, New York, I went there to get 
a job at carpenter or mason work and could 
not without joining the union, although they 
wanted men. “The Christian” had an article 
that a competent workman was stranded in 
New York City, unable to get work at his 
trade without paying fifty dollars to join a se¬ 
cret labor union. It went on to say that he 
must pay ten dollars per week for five weeks 
for the privilege of earning an honest living. 
This so-called land of the free is fast becoming 
the land of bondage when a man, especially a 
Christian, cannot work at his trade without 
paying a certain amount to an ungodly institu¬ 
tion in order to have that privilege. That 
means the jeopardizing of the rights of others, 
in order to promote ones own interests, i. e. by 
compelling an unorganized man or woman to 
leave his or her job or join the union. And 


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because their consciences will not allow them 
to belong to a body of wicked men, they must 
leave their jobs. Our sympathy has always 
been and is now with the laboring man, who, 
instead of stealing or fraud, tries by honest 
labor to make a living. But when he leaves 
just and right means which harmonize with the 
Bible in order to obtain it, we must leave him 
and give our sympathy to the man who is un- 
scripturally oppressed by organized labor or 
otherwise. Look at the number of persons 
killed or injured for life by coal miners and 
railway unions, etc. Had there been no union 
there would have been no killing. No Chris¬ 
tian can give money or influence to any man 
or set of men who destroy life or property 
and, at the same time, retain a justified rela¬ 
tionship toward God. 


FIFTH OBJECTION 

My fifth objection is to the “checkoff” 
system which makes every member a partner 
in all the financial business of the union, con- 


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trary to the word of God. You- can no more 
yoke your money up with unbelievers in busi¬ 
ness than you could yourself in marriage or 
religion. When I joined the union, the “check¬ 
off’’ was just for regular dues such as the bur¬ 
ial fund, etc., and two percent was to go to the 
general fund of which a part went to pay the 
President and Secretaries who were often men 
who would swear and get drunk. We did not 
have to contribute to any other striking local 
unless we wished to. Neither did we have to 
throw in to a collection for a sick or disabled 
brother unless we thought the case a just and 
deserving one. Now the majority votes the 
“check-offs” and if the man has been drunk 
and is sick or has been hurt while drunk, your 
money helps to pay the bill. He can use it 
to buy more liquor or tobacco and you cannot 
help yourself because the majority in the local 
votes it so and the minority has to concede to 
the same, right or wrong. If the vote is for 
some striking local or other labor union and 
a man is killed or injured, your money and in¬ 
fluence in the union helps to do it and,although 
you profess to love your neighbor as your- 


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self, you are his murderer by the instrumen¬ 
tality of the union to which you belong. 

No sinner can transact business to the 
glory of God. And so when you go into part¬ 
nership with the wicked labor unions you are 
not only yoking yourself with the unbelievers 
but you are putting in your money and influ¬ 
ence also. I never knew a local union in a la¬ 
bor union but what the majority were ungodly, 
and even if one certain local union should be 
religious, they are affiliated with other locals 
and the union in general. Some times the 
union local, or locals, arrange for a celebra¬ 
tion with a union dance or it may be a banquet 
or picnic with dancing and worldly amuse¬ 
ments and your money, my religious brother, 
helps to support all this to your condemnation. 
I know of a number of cases where a member 
of the miners union to which I once belonged 
has been drunk and either killed his union 
brother or some of his family, or has been 
killed himself and the union local has paid the 
burial expenses, and every so-called child of 
God in the local helped to pay the bill, al- 


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though the victim died drunk, fighting and 
cursing, contrary to Christ’s injunction, “Let 
the dead (the wicked dead or the dead in sin) 
bury their dead.” Matt. 8: 22. 

There was a case here in our town, where 
a woman, a miner’s wife, went out joy-riding 
one night with another man, leaving her hus¬ 
band at home with the children, including an 
infant five months old. A train struck them, 
killing her instantly and injuring him so that 
he died later in the hospital. The local here 
buried the adulteress, and the local in another 
town buried the adulterer and not only pro¬ 
fessed Christians but so-called Holiness 
preachers helped to pay through the “check¬ 
off” system the bills in opposition to the above 
command, “Let the dead bury their dead,” 
while worthy saints of God that we have 
known have had to go in debt in order to give 
the righteous dead a decent burial, God says 
for the church to, “In honor prefer one an¬ 
other” (Rom. 12:10). In unions the ungodly 
union brother is preferred to the Christian 
brother. After knowing these things to be 


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facts, how can Christian men or women remain 
in institutions of this character, spending their 
money, or rather God’s money, in such a way? 
“For we are not our own, for we are bought 
with a price.” 1st Cor. 6: 20. 

How can they remain in the unions after 
they have the light and knowledge of these 
facts? The judgment, we think, will reveal 
the fact that many professors of religion and 
holiness preachers and people are lost because 
of this very thing, all because they would not 
take the unquestionable side in this matter. 
May God help you, my brother and sister in 
the union, to look these facts squarely in the 
face as you will wish you had when at the bar 
of Holy Justice. 


SIXTH OBJECTION 

My sixth objection is that unions create 
carnal strife. And the Word of God says, 
“And the servant of the Lord must not strive; 
but be gentle unto all men” (2nd Tim. 2: 24). 


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There does not seem to be any objection to 
Christians striving lawfully, i. e. according to 
scriptures. If it is against sin it is acceptable 
to God . (See 2nd Tim. 2:5). We believe 
the right way for a Christian laborer to do, 
if he believes he is entitled to a raise of wages, 
is to ask in a civil and lawful manner. If he 
cannot obtain it in that way, he should use no 
violent means nor assist others in anything of 
the kind but as becometh a follower of the 
“meek and lowly Jesus.” He should take all 
his financial and other troubles to God in 
prayer and God will work it all out for his 
good and his glory and he will retain a good 
conscience toward God and man. But in labor 
unions there is strife to the extent that the 
union men beat and sometimes kill non-union 
men who take the jobs at which they refuse 
to work at the price offered by the employer. 
And sometimes the union men have burned 
down their employers’ buildings, shops and 
other property in retaliation for not getting 
their demands and you, my professed Christian 
brother in the union, are a partner in this very 
thing and God will hold you accountable at 


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his judgment bar for the same. To show you 
the kind of spirit that union men manifested in 
time of strikes, I will give you what a president 
of a large local union said to me when I re¬ 
monstrated against the killing of non-union 
laborers’ contending that it was contrary to the 
law of God and state. He said that he believed 
God would justify him in killing any non¬ 
union man who would take his or his fellow 
craftsman’s job. I asked him where in the law 
of God or the law of the state he could find 
the least evidence to sustain him. He failed 
to produce any and because it could not be 
found in either. So unions justify not only 
murder and arson but actually commit the 
same. Again I ask how a Christian man can 
belong to such a institution or even a church 
that takes into its membership and fellowship 
the members of such an institution. 


SEVENTH OBJECTION 

My seventh objection is to the speaking 
evil one of the other which is contrary to the 


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Word of God. (“Speak not evil one of an¬ 
other, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his 
brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil 
of the laws, and judgeth the law; but if thou 
judge the law thou art not a doer of the 
law, but a judge”—James 4: 11). The 
terms “scab,” “blackleg” and others are used 
by unions jn referring to unorganized la¬ 
bor, of course including all Christians not 
so organized. This is positively contrary 
to the above injunction. Then in Titus 3: 
2 we find these words “To speak evil of no 
man, to be no brawlers but gentle, shewing 
all meekness unto all men.” Every two or 
three years or at the expiration of each con¬ 
tract between employer and union workers 
there is that disagreeable task of making an¬ 
other contract and making another wage scale. 
There is wrangling and confusion and if it 
takes some time to get together, there is a sus¬ 
pension of all work, which they call a strike, 
and merchants, fearing the loss of money re¬ 
fuse to trust the men and soon suffering and 
begging begin and continue until the public 
becomes disgusted. People know there could 


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be no strike without strikers, so farmers and 
others see that the fault is with the strikers, 
and many of them refuse to give aid to the 
strikers and I have known union men to curse 
the farmers because they refused to give aid 
to them. I have heard union coal miners more 
than a score of times say that the organized 
men ought to go out in a body and kill off 
all the ‘scabs” and “blacklegs,” and sometimes 
they would include the operators in their 
threats. And sometimes they have carried out 
these very threats by killing both non-union 
men and employers or the men who had been 
hired to guard the property and by burning 
down hoppers and other buildings. So I know 
that unions are not only made up of back¬ 
biters but are actually murderous institutions. 
How can a true follower of Jesus belong to 
such an institution? 


EIGHTH OBJECTION 

My eighth objection is that labor unions 
create discontent, especially in wage condi- 


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tions, contrary to the teaching of John the 
Baptist who was the forerunner of Jesus. His 
commandment to the soldiers was “Do vio¬ 
lence to no man, neither accuse any falsely; 
and be content with your wages” (Luke 3: 
14). This command would be ignored by the 
unions of today, although Jesus said John was 
the greatest prophet born of woman. The 
first labor strike on record of which I have any 
knowledge, was the one instituted against St. 
Paul and his co-workers by Demetrius and his 
craftsmen (Acts 19: 24). He thought his craft 
(labor union) in danger and called together 
the workmen of like occupation (union mass¬ 
meeting) and said, “Sirs, ye know that by this 
craft (or union) we have our wealth, etc.” 
When he closed his speech they were filled 
with wrath, so they filled the city with con¬ 
fusion, and kept it up for three long hours, 
trying to enlist the religious part of the city 
in their strike of defence against Paul and his 
co-workers for their craft manufactured 
shrines for idolatrous worship. (Silver boxes 
to keep offerings in and probably silver altars, 
used to worship the goddess Diana). Then the 


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town clerk (someone like our modern Mayor) 
quieted them and warned them that they were 
in danger of being called in question (dealt 
with according to the law which they had vio¬ 
lated by their strike) for that day’s uproar. 
This is a typical union mass-meeting and strike 
save that they did not kill anyone. Our mod¬ 
ern organized craftsmen, if they think their 
craft in danger, will stir up everyone in their 
organization and incite each other to riot and 
blood-shed. The trouble with our modern offi¬ 
cers of the law is that they are not like the 
town clerk of Ephesus. They bow to the labor 
unions to get their political support, even 
though they set the whole state in strife and 
confusion. And this very thing is undermin¬ 
ing the peace and liberty of our church and 
nation. God help us to see it. And so I con¬ 
clude that labor unions are violaters of the 
law and disturbers of the peace. 


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NINTH OBJECTION 


My ninth objection to Christians belong¬ 
ing to labor unions is that, by their demands 
and strikes, they have forced the price of labor 
so high that food and clothing and fuel are so 
high that the very poor and sick and all persons 
unable to labor for a livelihood suffer for the 
necessities of life. This is a case of the so- 
called poor oppressing the poor as in Prov. 28: 
3. It is like a sweeping rain. We know that 
the more it costs to produce a certain article 
the higher that article will have to be sold in 
order for the manufacturer to realize a profit 
on the same. And when he cannot realize a 
profit, he will quit that certain business. This 
statement covers all commodities. Just a cas¬ 
ual look at the high cost of living and its cause 
will prove that unions are principally to blame. 
For instance, the paper on which I write this 
costs me twice as much as it formerly did be¬ 
cause the labor plowing the ground and sowing 
the seed and harvesting, bailing and market¬ 
ing the cotton costs twice as much as it did 
before the price of labor was forced up by 


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unions, causing the price of old rags to go up 
from seventy-five cents per hundred to three 
dollars per hundred. The same may be said of 
flour and all other food-stuffs. In fact, the 
purchasing power of one dollar six years ago 
was as much as the purchasing power of two 
dollars is now, all because of the high price of 
labor. The union leaders lay the blame on 
profiteers but, on account of present restric¬ 
tions, there is less profiteering now than before 
the high cost of labor and profiteers have been 
arrested and fined throughout the states, mak¬ 
ing it an undesirable business. 

Not only does organized labor force prices 
of labor up, thus making the articles they pro¬ 
duce or manufacture higher, but they are com¬ 
bining in their efforts for a six hour day, a 
five day week, and a single shift. This is con¬ 
trary to the commandments of God’s Word. 
(Deut. 5: 13) “Six days thou shalt labor and 
do all thy work.” But in spite of this com¬ 
mand the miner’s union in this district refused 
for an entire year to work on Saturdays, al¬ 
though the mines were marked up for work by 
the mine bosses. And all this, in spite of the 


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fact that they had no such provisions in their 
contract with the operators. Professed Chris¬ 
tians and Holiness preachers were parties to 
the same, in opposition to the above command. 
On the other hand, the pumpers and machine 
men, after refusing to work on Saturday 
would go in on the Sabbath to cut coal; track 
layers did the same. The machine man must 
work on the Sabbath or hire some one in his 
place and if he did this he would be guilty of 
two sins instead of one, making himself guiltv 
and engaging the other man also in the same 
thing. And you are a brother to such men 
who not only break the fourth commandment 
but take the name of your God and Saviour in 
vain, including the third commandment. I do 
not wish to convey the idea that it is wrong 
for a man or a number of men, after they have 
filled their contract with their employers, to 
ask for a raise of wages or a betterment of their 
working conditions and, if refused such re¬ 
quests, to quit the job if they wish. But Chris¬ 
tians must do this without carnal strife and 
without envy toward the men who take their 
places. If they are willing to work for the 


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wages for which you refuse to work, you 
should go your way as a Christian, not threat¬ 
ening or coercing them for working for the 
men for whom you have refused to work at 
the same wages. 


TENTH OBJECTION 

My tenth objection is that we cannot keep 
the Golden Rule and belong to labor unions. 
“Therefore all things whatsoever ye would 
that men should do unto you do ye even so 
unto them” (Matt. 7: 12). This you cannot 
do if you discriminate between union and non¬ 
union laborers. The Golden Rule practiced 
will cause us to treat the other fellow as we 
would wish him to treat us, were we in his 
circumstances. But not so with members of 
labor unions. If you do not feel clear to join 
their union, it matters not how much you are 
suffering for food and raiment, you are not 
allowed to work at the same job with them. 
Again, we are commanded to prefer one an¬ 
other, i. e. Christians, (see Rom. 12: 10). But 


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in the union you prefer your union brother in¬ 
stead of your Christian brother and your union 
brother gets the job, although he may spend 
his money for strong drink and tobacco. So 
in labor unions the sinner in the union is pre¬ 
ferred to the Christians outside the union, con¬ 
trary to the above command. 


ELEVENTH OBJECTION 

My eleventh objection to labor unions is 
that they are the originators of unionism, from 
whence all other unions have either sprung or 
obtained their ideas. Hence the confederation 
of churches is based on the same principles as 
the Federation of Labor. And the day is fast 
approaching when the federation of churches 
will make it almost impossible for preachers 
who are not members of the same to la¬ 
bor in the same city. In fact, in some 
cities now no man can occupy a pulpit 
in any church without the consent of the 
federation of churches. To give my reader 
an idea of this union of churches I will 


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give you an article found in the Columbus 
paper. It states that this same federation of 
churches had grouped together for a series of 
meetings, the Methodists, Universaiists, Epis¬ 
copalians, etc. Just think of an old-fashioned 
John Wesley-kind of a Methodist, federated 
with Universaiists who believe all men will be 
saved, contrary to the plain word of God, 
which says “He that believeth not shall be 
damned” (Mark 16: 16), or “Depart from me 
ye cursed, into everlasting fire, and these shall 
go away into everlasting punishment” (Matt. 
25 : 41 & 46), and “The wicked shall be turned 
into hell, and all the nations that forget God” 
(Psalm 9:17). Now the man or church that 
recognizes Universaiists in the least must give 
Jesus the lie, according to the above scriptures. 
This union of churches is a monopolizing 
scheme of the Devil to shut out Holy Ghost 
preaching of the truth, and install a system of 
preaching that will not touch sin but rather 
“justify the wicked for a reward” i. e. the 
money there is in it. And here I assert that 
no Christian can belong to a church that is in 
this league and retain a justified relationship 


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toward God. When this federation becomes 
strong enough, it will, with the help of the 
Federation of Labor, pass laws prohibiting all 
non-union preachers from preachirig. Then 
religious liberty will be a thing of the past. 
We are aware that thousands of church mem¬ 
bers, and many of them in the holiness 
churches, belong to unions, but I aver that no 
Christian ought to belong to any such organi¬ 
zation, secret or non-secret, especially one 
that takes the ungodly into its fellowship, not 
even the temperance leagues of today,-—no 
not even the tithers union, for many of them 
belong to the larger unions and secret orders 
which are not organized even for a moral or 
religious purpose, thus making a complete 
chain, forged by labor unions, church federa¬ 
tions, secret orders, federations of nations, etc. 
The devil has engaged the churches to hang on 
these petty religious and temperance orders in 
which the ungodly are fellowshiped and these 
smaller orders are made an apology for the 
more worldly and irreligious institutions by 
which scheme he purposes to federate religi¬ 
ous and all other organizations into one anti- 


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Christian body with a possible head, such as a 
president, a great anti-Christ who will perse¬ 
cute all who will not federate with that body, 
or receive its mark, something like the union 
label or trade mark. The League of Nations 
is a political step in the same direction. If 
Jesus tarries, no doubt confederated labor and 
church, with the League of Nations, will rule 
the world for labor organizations are being 
made in every nation as fast as opportunity 
affords it. May God open our eyes to these 
facts. 


TWELFTH OBJECTION 

My twelfth objection is that we cannot 
keep the two greatest commands of the Bible 
and belong to labor unions, “Thou shalt love 
the Lord thy God with all thy heart (natural 
affection) and with all thy soul, (spiritual 
being) and with all thy mind” (Matt. 22: 37- 
38). Mind being a composition of thoughts, 
our thoughts must be righteous and holy in 
order to love God with all our mind, and 


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“Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.” 
Now this we cannot do if we discriminate 
against our neighbor in favor of our union 
brother and he a sinner. Our neighbor is one 
who needs our help according to the teaching 
of Jesus, whether he be of our nationality or 
of our organization or not, and if he needs 
work and we, in conjunction with the union to 
which we belong, refuse him the same because 
he does not feel clear to join our union, we 
transgress this second great commandment. 
And we are also guilty of partiality, “Are ye 
not then partial in yourselves, and are become 
judges of evil thoughts?” (James 2:4). In 
the ninth verse it says, “If ye have respect to 
persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of 
the law as transgressors.” So when you have 
respect to your union brother, you commit sin. 
Neither can we give our thoughts to the build¬ 
ing up of any society of wicked men or women 
and at the same time love God with all our 
hearts and souls and minds. If we obey these 
injunctions there will be no room left in our 
hearts and minds for unions and secret orders. 


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THIRTEENTH OBJECTION 


My thirtenth objection is that we cannot 
be “A live stone” imGod’s temple and belong 
to labor unions. Wherefore also it is con¬ 
tained in the scripture “Ye also as lively 
stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy 
priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, 
acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. Behold I 
lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious; 
and he that believeth on Him shall not be con¬ 
founded” (1st Peter 2: 5-6). According to 
this no lively (or quickened) stone can build 
on the foundation of unionism and at the same 
time remain on Christ; for He is elected of 
God and is precious. And surely no one will 
assume that labor unions are elected or ap¬ 
pointed of God, especially when we see that 
majority do not even profess religion and 
when we see damage done to life and property 
in time of strikes. Persons builded on union¬ 
ism are dead stones, and are in an unholy tem¬ 
ple of the devil. But, as recorded in Eph. 2: 
21, we are not only properly framed together 
but grow into a holy temple in the Lord. 


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Labor unions make no pretention to religion, 
except in their burial ceremonies, so they are 
not even religiously built on Christ. The 
lively stones of God’s church, or temple, are 
cemented together by the love of God but 
labor unions are joined together by obligations 
in the form of oaths. I here assert that no man 
with the spirit of Christ in his heart can take 
these obligations without feeling the chasten¬ 
ing rod of God. I know by experience. May 
the merciful God deliver all Christians from 
the bondage of all such obligations. 


FOURTEENTH OBJECTION 

My fourteenth objection is that labor 
unions are not law abiding. When their de¬ 
mands are not granted, they violate the law, 
as we have said, by injuring non-organized 
laborers and killing them, and sometimes their 
employers, and burning their buildings, for all 
of which they have not the least bit of a legal 
right. The Bible says “Submit yourselves to 
every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake 


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whether it be to the King, as supreme; or un¬ 
to Governors, as unto them that are sent by 
him for the punishment of evildoers, and for 
the praise of them that do well. For so is the 
will of God, that with well doing ye may put 
to silence the ignorance of foolish men” (1st 
Peter 2: 13-15). They themselves refuse to 
work, which they have a right to do, and then 
they go on and threaten the non-union laborers 
for working at the job which they themselves 
refused. God’s Word says to forebear threat¬ 
ening (Eph. 6:9). When Jesus suffered he 
threatened not (1st Peter 2: 23). “He is our 
example that we should follow his steps” (1st 
Peter 2: 21). If the unions do not use mob 
law they resort to secret schemes to coerce the 
employers into giving them their demands by 
destroying valuable properties. I am told by 
coal miners themselves that near Straitsville, 
Ohio, there was a mine set on fire by union 
miners in the 1884 strike when non-union men 
were brought in by mine owners because the 
union men refused to work at the wages of¬ 
fered by the operators. This mine is burning 
yet and all efforts to stop the fire have failed. 


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No doubt millions of dollars worth of coal has 
been destroyed and the end is not yet. This 
confirms our charge that labor unions are not 
law abiding. If it is unlawful for a mob to 
hunt down a man and kill him without trial, 
although he is a criminal, then it is certainly 
wrong and illegal for a mob of union miners 
or other union workers to beat and kill non¬ 
union men working peaceably at any vocation. 
I see no just reason why, if a union laborer 
refuses to work longer at any vocation, his 
employer may not legally and scripturally hire 
any man in his place, without doing him any 
injustice. 


FIFTEENTH OBJECTION 

My fifteenth objection is that labor unions 
violate constitutional rights inasmuch as the 
constitution of the United States grants all its 
subjects civil and religious liberty. There are 
no provisions made in the constitution of the 
United States for any group of persons or any 
certain clique or religion. Labor unions are 


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against this constitution, inasmuch as they pre¬ 
vent a certain part of people of this govern¬ 
ment, the employers, from exercising their 
constitutional rights to hire whoever they 
choose. The unions prevent the non-union 
men from working at the same job with them 
or at the job that they themselves refuse to 
work at unless they receive more money or bet¬ 
ter working conditions. Whenever the mem¬ 
bers of this nation cannot follow the pursuits 
of manual labor, except at the dictates of or¬ 
ganized craft, the constitution of this nation 
has become nul and void and when a man of 
capital cannot hire any American citizen to 
work at any legitimate vocation without the 
grant of organized craft, this constitution has 
become a nulity. The constitution of every 
state in the United States grants its subjects 
the free right to employ any citizen of the same 
state, if he be of lawful age, without the dic¬ 
tates or grant of an organized craft, but the 
constitutions and good laws of these states 
have been perverted and are being perverted 
by organized labor and “putty back-boned” 
officers of the law, by allowing these unions 


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not only to exist, but have arranged confer¬ 
ences for them. And governors, and presi¬ 
dents of the United States have parlied with 
them in getting a settlement for their crafts 
and companies for which they have worked, 
until this government has become a tool for 
labor unions to play with. They are gradually 
undermining this government. Mr. Wilson 
was the first president of this nation to ac¬ 
knowledge the right of unions to strike and 
thereby tie up the industries of this country 
and this he did in time of the world’s war. 
He stooped beneath the dignity of his high 
office and constitutional rights when he did it. 
Now we can plainly see how, by unlawful 
strikes and mob force and tyrany, the labor 
unions are getting their demands from even 
governors and presidents intsead of the legally 
and civil way of the ballot. Take a look at 
the railroad Brotherhoods strike. The whole 
nation stood amazed and people were fearful 
of the results if the strike became complete, 
knowing that there would be starvation in all 
of the large cities, and all this in the face of 
the fact that such a tie-up of traffic was con- 


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trary to the law of the land. Furthermore, 
when laws are enacted by other means than 
that which is civil, it is engendering a tyranical 
form of government, whether by a majority 
or a few, as would be the case of unions get¬ 
ting their demands by strikes. 


SIXTEENTH OBJECTION 

My sixteenth objection is that labor unions 
are responsible, to a great extent, for the 
scarcity of labor in this country. They take 
in the unnaturalized foreigner and, in some 
cases, he will remain in the union for ten or 
fifteen years without becoming a citizen of the 
United States and sometimes, after getting a 
few hundred dollars ahead, will return to his 
native land to live the rest of his life, while 
our home-born Americans who do not belong 
to the union because of their God given con¬ 
victions that Christians should not join ungod¬ 
ly institutions, go without a job. The Slogans, 
“Christians first” or “Americans first” are not 
the slogans of labor unions, but “union men 


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and union organizations first and America and 
Christians last and non-union labor not at all." 
I have known foreigners to be taken in al¬ 
though unable to speak a word of English. 
They had to talk through an interpreter and 
work with some one that could talk their lan¬ 
guage, while qualified and well informed 
Americans were without a job. The foreigner 
sometimes writes his relatives in his home land 
of his favorable circumstances and the money 
he is making, with the security of his job in the 
union. So they come and join their relatives 
and friends in union labor and thus our coun¬ 
try is flooded with foreign labor, while our 
home-born Americans must join the union or 
go without work. Scarcity of labor engenders 
crime for a well employed man has no need 
to commit crime to get food or raiment. The 
eight hour day has made a scarcity of demand 
for farm labor. I have heard farmers say that 
they could not pay the price demanded by farm 
labor on an eight hour day. I received a letter 
of apology from A. A. Berry, seed man, Clar- 
inda, Iowa, for not shipping some seed ordered 
of him, saying that the delay was on account 


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of a law in his state making it a punishable 
offence for any person to employ a man more 
than nine hours each day. The same penalty 
was imposed on the employe and all this was 
caused by the influence of unionism. Think 
of it, dear reader, unions get laws passed mak¬ 
ing it a crime to work over nine hours in any 
certain day. No wonder some farmers have 
become disgusted, and discouraged and have 
given up farming, making a scarcity of farm 
products, creating higher prices because of a 
scarcity. Then the unions cry out against the 
high price of food stuffs, when they are chiefly 
to blame for the same, and ask for another 
raise of wages on these very grounds. When 
labor unions can get the farm labor organized 
they will have monopolized every industry. I 
will speak more particularly of this in my next 
objection. 


SEVENTEENTH OBJECTION 

My seventeenth objection is that labor 
unions are unlawful combines or monopolies. 


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It is just as much a violation of the law to 
monopolize labor as it is to monopolize the 
manufacture or sale of commodities. If a 
company of business men should buy up all 
of the sugar on the market and hold it for 
higher price, this would be monopolizing the 
sugar trade and would be a violation of the 
law because the men would be in control of 
the whole sugar market in order that they 
might realize a large and unlawful profit. And 
the consumer pays the profit. In the same 
way labor unions are monopolizing labor by 
getting in control of the same. And labor 
unions are in control of all the leading indus¬ 
tries of this country except farm labor and 
they have been putting forth every effort to 
organize that. Had it not been for the many 
farm papers warning the farmer against or¬ 
ganized farm labor, they would have accom¬ 
plished it long ago. Whenever labor unions 
get control of farm labor, there will be a great¬ 
er disturbance of the peace than there has been 
by all the United Mine Workers wars and 
other labor wars put together. The houses 
and barns of farmers who will not hire organ- 


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ized labor will be burned and their horses and 
cattle killed or poisoned. The same conditions 
and worse than those which have prevailed in 
coal and railroad strikes will prevail because 
the farmers in general are not easily driven to 
things contrary to their honest convictions. 
Usually the farmers are cool-headed and reso¬ 
lute in their determination. Organized labor, 
as I have said in the former objection, is under¬ 
mining the constitution of this government. 
So outside of its control of the labor industries, 
it is gradually worming its way into govern¬ 
ment employment. I have before me the 
United Mine Workers Journal, dated March 
1, 1924, with an article on page seven,. This 
is what it says, “The recent convention of 
United Mine Workers of America adopted a 
resolution in favor of increased wages for the 
postal employes of the government.” It goes 
on to say that post-officials usually have their 
knives out for any bona fide union of postal 
employes. So you get a glimpse of what this 
labor monopoly is endeavoring to do with 
government employes. If they were to suc¬ 
ceed in organizing the army and navy, they 


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would have absolute control of the government 
and could order a mutiny in favor of any de¬ 
mand they might make of the government and 
they would get it. When labor unions get 
control of government employes this govern¬ 
ment will soon become bankrupt for, although 
taxes are now high, they will be increased fifty 
percent or as high as the demands of higher 
wages may require. The consumer has to pay 
the high price of commodities that high labor 
produces for any one knows that the more it 
costs to produce an article, the higher that 
article must sell on the market. So the higher 
the wages paid to government employes, the 
higher the taxes or revenue must be to meet 
the same. Any producer or manufacturer of 
an article will cease to manufacture that article 
when he can no longer make a profit on the 
same. As I said the consumer pays all the 
cost of manufacturing and handling, including 
freight, or the retailer would bankrupt for he 
is the last man that handles those articles. The 
higher the price of food and clothing go, the 
more the poor of the land are oppressed. So 
the labor unions are guilty of oppressing the 


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poor and God’s word says. “He that oppres¬ 
sed the poor reproacheth his Maker” (Prov. 
14: 31) and as the monopolization of labor 
prohibits any persons other than of organized 
labor the right to participate in the same, or¬ 
ganized labor is an unlawful combine. 


EIGHTEENTH OBJECTION 

My eighteenth objection is that the union 
obligations make the union members bond- 
servants to a sinful institution, and no Chris¬ 
tian man or woman can be a servant of a sin¬ 
ful institution and yet belong to the body (the 
Church) of Christ (Rom. 6: 16). For either 
temporal or religious purposes, a sinful insti¬ 
tution is an “evil tree” and Jesus says “An evil 
tree cannot bear good fruit.” And you, my 
Christian brother, cannot be a branch in an 
evil tree and remain a branch in the “True 
Vine.” Jesus says “Every plant that my 
Heavenly Father hath not planted shall be 
rooted up” (Matt. 15: 13). I know that, 
because of the fruit they bear, labor unions 


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were not planted by the Heavenly Father. 
They are trees of the devil’s planting and 
must be rooted out of your life, my Chris¬ 
tian brother, if you remain in the “True 
Vine.” Labor unions take away your Chris¬ 
tian and personal liberty by their require¬ 
ments of attending its meetings which are 
made up mostly by ungodly and profane men. 
You vote for their wicked officers and their 
measures even though those measures are dis¬ 
criminating against a son or daughter of God 
by the voting for a certain “check-off” to assist 
some striking local or other labor strike in 
which life and property are destroyed. Even 
though you do not vote, the majority rules and 
your money in the union is in bondage to the 
same and is used to support their wickedness. 
It takes away your personal liberty because, 
when out of a union job, you are prohibited to 
work at a non-union job of the same craft, al¬ 
though you and your family be suffering for 
food and raiment because you belong to and 
are the property of the union. May the God 
of liberty set you free. God says you are his 
property. “What? Know ye not that your 


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body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is 
in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not 
your own, for ye are bought with a price; 
therefore, glorify God in your body, and in 
your spirit, which are God’s” (1st Cor. 6: 19- 
20). According to this you have no right to 
obligate the service of your body, spirit, money 
or anything else to any man or set of men by 
oath or obligation such as you take in joining 
labor unions or other institutions made up with 
a majority of wicked men. 


NINETEENTH OBJECTION 

My ninetenth objection is that labor 
unions are idolatrous institutions. An idol is 
any person or object or thing that we love, 
serve or give honor to, or to which we devote 
more time, money or service than we do to 
God—anything that we are not willing to give 
up or sacrifice to God. In fact, an idol is any¬ 
thing that we set our affections on, to the ex¬ 
tent of robbing God of service and the honor 
due him. Union advocates preach unionism 


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by public speeches and by holding great mass- 
meetings. They publish papers and posters, 
handbills, etc. Their members do homage to 
them by consecrating time and money to their 
service. They have what they call organizers, 
or in other words pioneer preachers, to preach 
unionism and the professed Christian’s money 
in the union helps to pay the bills and so God 
is robbed of time and money and it is given 
to this idolatrous institution. This institution 
puts organized labor above God and religion 
for it acknowledges an organized man as 
brother and give him a job instead of a non- 
organized Christian man, and many professors 
of religion among them have had light on these 
things. Sometimes these professed Christians 
hear their brothers in the union disputing with 
angry words and much taking the name of God 
in vain. Yes, I had this experience when I 
belonged to the union. I have been present 
when the president would call us brothers to¬ 
gether for a meeting and the men would get 
into a dispute and curse with most bitter oaths 
and they were my brothers in an ungodly insti¬ 
tution. I have seen them so drunk they could 


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hardly stand alone yet they would vote on im¬ 
portant matters, but in spite of these facts 
hundreds of professors of religion will refuse 
to come out of them because their job is secure 
in the union and they are afraid to trust God 
for a non-union job. Hence, the union is their 
idol. The beloved disciple, John, says “Little 
children, (God’s children) keep yourselves 
from idols” (1st John 5: 21). Labor unions 
have set up to themselves the god of labor and 
consecrate much time and money to his serv¬ 
ice. They have set aside certain days for 
special honor and devotions, such as Labor day 
and the Eight Hour Day, etc. Speeches are 
made on such occasions and much honor is 
done to the god of labor. In fact Labor 
unions devote so much time to the god 
of labor that they refuse to work on every 
so-called Red Letter day and among the 
United Mine Workers of America, devote 
one-half day, one Saturday in each month, 
for special meetings. The first Labor Day 
celebration I saw was in Olean City, New 
York. Almost every known craft was repre¬ 
sented. Leaders claimed there was over 


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three miles of parade, with bands. The 
distillers and brewers took a prominent part. 
Some saloons were wide open with free drinks 
for the musical bands and soldiers, a disgusting 
thing to behold. Some musicans were so 
drunk that they played a discord. Sometimes 
one would stagger out of the ranks too drunk 
to go farther. The same would take place with 
soldiers and others. The rest would keep up 
the confusion and music and it was about three 
days before the city got back to normal. Of 
course this was in the days of the open saloon 
and this was a sample of the consecration to 
the god of labor for this god must be honored 
by music the same as the golden calf that the 
Israelites set up when they thought Moses was 
dead and the same as the golden image Nebu¬ 
chadnezzar set up in the plain of Dura and 
which he consecrated with much music. So 
organized labor worships its god with much 
worldly music and drunkenness and dancing. 
How can you, my brother in Christ, consort 
with such an institution and remain right with 
God? “For what agreement hath the temple 
of God with idols? For ye are the temple of 


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God” (2 Cor. 6: 16). You are selling Jesus, 
and bartering heaven for a union job. 


TWENTIETH OBJECTION 

My twentieth objection is that labor unions 
are worldly institutions, being made up princi¬ 
pally of ungodly men who travel the broad 
way of sin. No Christian man can travel with 
them. “For how can two walk together ex¬ 
cept they agree” (Amos 3:3). No Christian 
can agree to very many things transacted by 
members of labor unions and not grieve the 
Holy Ghost. Jesus said of his disciples, “They 
are not of the world, even as I am not of the 
world” (the sinful world) (St. John 17: 16). 
Again, you cannot have any pleasure in or love 
for such institutions and retain the favor of 
God. Hear this command, “Love not the 
world, neither the things that are in the world. 
If any man love the world, the love of the 
Father is not in him” (1st John 2: 15). 
“Whosoever therefore will be a friend of the 
world is the enemy of God” (James 4: 4). 


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Any institutions organized by or made up of 
sinners, whether for profit or pleasure, is a 
worldly institution. Although it may have 
some good qualities nevertheless it is the 
devil's institution and used by him to promote 
his interests. Therefore, my brother in the 
union, I give you my last injunction from 
God's word “Wherefore come out from among 
them and be separate, sayeth the Lord and 
touch not the unclean thing.” 2 Cor. 6: 17. 


FINAL EXHORTATION 

It has been three years since I began this 
little book and now (June 22, 1922) here 
comes a strong confirmation of our oft re¬ 
peated charge that labor unions are lawless 
and murderous and unconstitutional organiza¬ 
tions, in the unparalleled barbarism perpe¬ 
trated by the United Mine Workers Union at 
Herrin, Illinois, in the horrible massacre of 
twenty to thirty non-union men after they had 
run up the white flag and surrendered. The 
fiendish and cold blooded manner in which the 


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union men butchered the victims up almost 
surpassed the uncivilized American Indians, 
and all this for no other reason than that of 
working at a job that the union men refused 
to work at unless they got their demands. 
These men had violated no law of God or of 
the state but only the wishes of an unlawful 
and unconstitutional labor combine. I ask, 
“Who is guilty of these barbarous acts?” and I 
give the answer, “Every member of the United 
Mine Workers of America.” and you, my pro¬ 
fessed Christian in that union, and you, holi¬ 
ness preacher in the same, your hands are 
stained with the blood of every one killed in 
such strikes, whether at Herrin or elsewhere, 
for you are a member of the United Mine 
Workers of America. Your money and influ¬ 
ence is with them and, in the sight of God, you 
are as guilty as if you had shot or stabbed or 
beat to death, each one so killed in such strike. 
And now, my brother in the union, as you 
see yourself guilty in the sight of God, your 
only hope of heaven is to truly repent and con¬ 
fess your guilt to God and come out of this 
murderous and law breaking institution or 


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when God makes “inquisition for blood” you 
will be found guilty (Psalm 9: 12). Again, 
consider, if your money pays or helps to pay 
for the killing of a man, you are just as guilty 
as the man who kills him with a weapon and 
when buildings are burned you are as guilty of 
arson as the men who set them on fire. You 
are an abettor to the crime by supporting, and 
remaining among them after you know these 
things to be facts. Paul says “What? Know 
ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is 
one body for two, saith he, shall be one flesh. 
But he that is joined unto the Lord is one 
spirit” (1 Cor. 6: 16-17). So if you are joined 
to the labor union you are one body. In fact, 
a man is no better than those with whom he 
affiliates, “Wherefore come out of this insti¬ 
tution that ye be not partakers of her sins.” 
Some have said that the officials do not 
approve of these acts of law violation. 
Were those murderers at Herrin reproved by 
their officials? Emphatically, no! Were they 
expelled from the organization? No. They 
were condoled by officials and members of the 
United Mine Workers. They still remain in 


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good standing among them, in full fellowship 
and, as we have asked the question a number 
of times in this little book, can a Christian man 
be justified and remain in such a murderous 
institution? Will he be clear at the bar of 
Holy Justice? Someone says, “Brother Fink, 
you have the diagnosis of the disease but have 
prescribed no remedy.” I reply that the spirit¬ 
ual remedy is a good case of Holy Ghost salva¬ 
tion. That will help us to love our neighbors 
as ourselves, whether they be of our society or 
not and whether they be union or non-union 
laborers, and that will help us to do unto others 
as we would have them do to us. Matt.7:12. 

Politically, use the ballot. Every man 
and woman that is a voter has a part in the 
law making of this nation. Again you ask 
what laws can be passed that will regulate 
labor and capital so that labor and capital will 
have their rightful share. I am aware that 
without capital there would be no demand or 
compensation for labor. By reference to capi¬ 
tal the Scriptures say money answers all things 
(Eccl. 10: 19). By it we purchase all the 
necessities of life. So money answers all tem- 


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poral needs. But how can labor get its right¬ 
ful share and at the same time eliminate the 
labor union and the so-called necessity of 
strikes ? Put all big business on the same basis 
and under the same kind of laws as the bank¬ 
ing system. Give capital a certain percent, 
after the cost of installing and repairing and 
keeping in repair such machinery as shall be 
necessary to the business and the paying of 
taxes, etc. It could be made fifteen or twenty 
percent and then labor would have a nice profit 
left. Labor cannot exist without capital. 
Neither can capital exist without Labor that 
produces capital. Let labor be paid a per¬ 
cent of its share every week or two, each 
one according to his earnings, and at the 
end of each month or two, let his final 
dividend be paid, and let all such business be 
government inspected. While this would take 
a little more “red tape” than the banking 
system, it would be just as practicable. With 
this kind of a law every man would be working 
for his own interests. I would recommend 
government ownership of railroads, the gov¬ 
ernment buying and paying the full value of 


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the same. I would include the express busi¬ 
ness. This is just as practicable as the postal 
system and would remove partiality. There 
would be no more preferences in shipping. 
There would be cheaper freight and express 
rates and that would cut down the high cost 
of living to some extent as is proved by small 
packages being much cheaper by parcel-post 
than by express at this time. 


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